Noir

6y

The endgame for this isn't to keep people from being exposed to or catching COVID-19. The goal is to make catching COVID-19 not a big deal. Ultimately, we are going to have to reach a point where enough people have immunity that the virus has nowhere to go.

Best case scenario is that we approve a treatment in the next 2-3 months that cuts the fatality rate down significantly. Imagine a scenario whare we're only seeing 500 deaths a day instead of 2000. The case figures would still be high, but with fatal outcomes being much rarer.

Until that happens, I'm still supportive of the lockdown. Once it does, I'll lean towards returning to normal. Eventually, we will have to embrace herd immunity, but not while the fatality rate is in question.

Sixty 5

6y

What a f***ing moron

Sixty 5

6y

What a f***ing moron

Noir

6y

Any articles with WHO pressers as its basis are terrible

"The coronavirus may never go away"

"We may find a vaccine that works great"

"But don't hold out hope for a vaccine"

"A lot of things could happen"

"It could be like HIV, even though HIV isn't a coronavirus"

Why am I reading this s***

g6ntiana

6y

The last one

Noir

6y

The endgame for this isn't to keep people from being exposed to or catching COVID-19. The goal is to make catching COVID-19 not a big deal. Ultimately, we are going to have to reach a point where enough people have immunity that the virus has nowhere to go.

Best case scenario is that we approve a treatment in the next 2-3 months that cuts the fatality rate down significantly. Imagine a scenario whare we're only seeing 500 deaths a day instead of 2000. The case figures would still be high, but with fatal outcomes being much rarer.

Until that happens, I'm still supportive of the lockdown. Once it does, I'll lean towards returning to normal. Eventually, we will have to embrace herd immunity, but not while the fatality rate is in question.

Theory

6y

My roommate has been sick for almost a week. He’s been super fatigued and feverish, but didn’t really have a cough. Said his chest felt heavy and he had kind of lost his taste.

He went and got a test done yesterday and it came back negative. He still didn’t feel good so he went back to his house.

My mom brought coffee over today and visited for a little bit (sat outside, weren’t super close), and then I get a text from my roommate saying he went to the doctor and they didn’t know what else it would be and that he may have had a false negative on the corona test which is apparently pretty likely to happen

Why wouldn’t they tell him this when they administer the test smh

So I’ve called into work just in case he has it and in turn I have it. I feel like if he did have it I would have shown symptoms by now right? Like, he’s been showing symptoms for about 5 days and I’ve been with him every day for the past month? So it seems like I should’ve gotten it around the same time he did? Or maybe I’m asymptomatic? I tried to get a test but it seems that tests are reserved for people who are showing symptoms or have doctor referrals.

I was supposed to do a live stream performance this weekend too, but that would require me to crash at a friends house which sounds like a bad idea, just on the chance I have it.

What does KTT think? Is it likely I’ve got it? Am I contagious now? Should I stay home from work indefinitely? Should I do the live stream and crash at a friends house? Should I text my ex and tell her I may have it and she may have it too?

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

6y

You prolly have it bruh, but I think it's super important that you get tested before we reach any conclusion

tbw

6y

the thing with this disease is that it leads to acute respiratory distress syndrome, which the plan of care is typically to sedate then intubate in order to give the lungs a rest while the underlying conditions are treated. however, in this case theres no cure for covid-19 which makes these cases difficult to treat for patients in the ICU as all we can do is manage the symptoms until they recover, which may take up time depending on the case, so i dont really see us returning to normal until a vaccine is out, or everyone contracts the disease and those who die, die. so im hoping for an extended lockdown until a vaccine is out to avoid unnecessary deaths but i doubt we can sustain it any longer with the way people be acting recently smfh

Noir

6y

The idea would be to keep anyone from getting ARDS in the first place by supplying treatment early on in the infection. If we had contact tracing in place, this would be a lot simpler; we could work out an exchange of information and treatment and move onto the next case.

It sounds like science fiction, but it shouldn't because we had THREE MONTHS to prepare for this specific virus and 10 YEARS since our last pandemic.